DV to m2v - Some frames become corrupted.

After transcoding some DV files with white 'flash frames' to m2v using Compressor, i noticed that these same frames are green with lots of corruption around them.
Any clue as to why this might happen?
http://www.zen67493.zen.co.uk/corruption.jpg
Is it anything to do with field dominance of DV as opposed to mpeg2?
Thanks
J

I have just found that the same thing happens when I transcode to H.264. What's going on here!?
J

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Video files seem to become corrupted when I adjust speed

Hello,
I have started editing a new project, and am experiencing a familiar problem that I have encountered in the past, but which was never really resolved. I'm not very technical, so apologies if my description of the problem is simplstic.
The problem is that after making certain edits in the Project window, I find that the entire project has some how become corrupted: i.e. every single clip becomes impossible to edit - I can't spool through the clips and view them in the screen by dragging my mouse cursor over them, and I can't even delete the clip whose edit seemed to result in the corruption.
If I leave the project to go back to the project library, it is now impossible to re-enter the project. The words "edit project" in the button at the top left become grey. I find that the most common cause for this problem is whenever I attempt to adjust the speed of a clip, or reverse it. Is this a common problem with a simple solution?
I have come up with a makeshift solution, which is far from satisfactory, but does sometimes help: I remove the file in the iMovie Events folder in Finder that contains the clips that I can no longer edit, and open up iMovie. The event library in iMovie will now be empty; I replace the events files back into the iMovie Events folder in Finder, then import a random clip into iMovie. The random clip is imported into a seprate event of its own, and the original file that I had put back into iMovie Events reappears simultaneously. Sometimes when I do this, the clips in the Project library are editable again, but not always.
However, I would far rather that the programme simply processed my edits without corrupting the project. Is anyone familliar with this problem, and does anyone have a solution. Thank you very much in advance.

There are several likely sources of corruption, and video card would be far down on my list of possible suspects.
The transfer from camera card to hard disk is the most likely place for problem, either the card reader or USB cable can go bad. Another likely source of problems is the computer's hard disk is starting to fail. The camera card itself may be bad. And lastly, the memory in the computer may be malfunctioning.

Opening existing Word Office Pro Plus 2010 document on a new computer with Word Office Pro Plus 2010 results in *some* of the text becoming "corrupt"/garbage

The source file had this text in a section I call "LANGUAGES":
Arabic: Hello (Peach and health) = Salam-Alekum
or Salam al salad; Thank you = Shokran; Please = Men-fad-luck; Good bye = weh-don
Bulgarian: Hello = dra-vaht; Goodbye = chow-chow; Thanks = wah-go-da-rhia;
(s:Sanya, (DigitalStar/E&E Electronics, DTV converter box)
Chinese/Mandarin: Running dog (servile follower, lackey) = zougou; This = jeige (jay-gah); That = neige (nay-gah); Hello, Mr. Lin (politely) = Lin-chenzin, ne how; Thank you = Xie xie (shay-shay); You’re welcome =
boo-kai-she
Czech: Hello = ahoj (ah-hoe-ee); Thank you = děkuji (de-quoy-yeh); You’re welcome =
není zač; Good afternoon = Dobré odpoledne;
Good morning = Dobré ráno; Goodbye =
sbohem; Goodbye for now = sbohem prozatim; Yes = ano; No = ne; Yes sir = ano pane (ano paanay); Have a nice weekend = Hezký víkend!
Farsi: Havij = carrot
After making a copy of the file, renaming it, and starting to use it, I noticed the above section looked like this:
Arabic: Hello (Peach and health) = Salam-Alekum
or Salam al salad; Thank you = Shokran; Please = Men-fad-luck; Good bye = weh-don
Bulgarian: Hello = dra-vah-DÅ7¢£8¿i¾A\ÅïÕÒb·#ªp¡€^žÏM–ehÂ*á‑L[Â¥!Ü"»¿¥g©P2<©\
Y5FUƒŽƒÄœý>ù4Õ
çÂ7¬ê=Ë"i»°ù‹þñ
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ÈuzdºD,%z¥.-
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b€ÕV~Y©Ó·Š€§¥[Ò]õy›Y°¹8U¾Ÿ²ää';z8©ŒN´«§6–‡0¥Ÿºns‚† ;ËÁ_$
y°hGëÀ¾-Ô9ÕÕb'_Üª~Ð4®lÍnròŒÚHðÑ–ŠZ+pT’œd0yÙDØ®±,â;QäO‘Q#¤¾šÆ™b
Íµc‡†Ý6#K–EPu¿lÉPUZC^»F+óR¯t”âx<Yñ`gëèø‑çg/Ðp“ð5ÓH˜âi'ówSÛÇ¨êÔ3úè! ˆ%vÈÂf>Õ§ÈÂ–*=ZÒ±ª děkuji (de-quoy-yeh); You’re welcome =
není zač; Good afternoon = Dobré odpoledne;
Good morning = Dobré ráno; Goodbye =
sbohem; Goodbye for now = sbohem prozatim; Yes = ano; No = ne; Yes sir = ano pane (ano paanay); Have a nice weekend = Hezký víkend!
Farsi: Havij = carrot
In another section of the source file, I had this URL to a Yahoo Finance stock listing:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s=RIMM%20DRR%20NDN%20GMCR%20DF%20V%20ACN%20MOS%20SHLD%20BUCY%20NTGR%20CPRT%20EEM%20DIA%20CME%20mkl%20t%20spy%20goog%20yhoo%20uis%20fnm%20ge%20ko%20MCD%20eln%20emc%20bvf%20abt%20wpi%20agn%20frx%20sfd%20amd%20cnp%20d%20ed%20eix%20celg%20qcom%20nt%20peg%20ppl%20bby%20flex%20cof%20asyt%20proxq.pk%20nok%20fe%20sns%20ibm%20spg%20wlp%20bfly%20brka%20brkb%20zmh%20cmi%20kg%20vrx%20amt%20twx%20ctxs%20sgp%20dox%20cmvt.pk%20elx%20xel%20aapl%20amzn%20jpm%20bsx%20mdt%20duk%20se%20csco%20jnpr%20dell%20ebay%20lly%20hpq%20hurc%20intc%20inin%20lvlt%20mck%20msft%20onb%20orcl%20scln%20smtk%20wmt%20tgt%20brwix%20obehx%20qqqq%20ssdsx%20csvfx%20scdgx%20ktcsx%20t%20obhex%20slafx%20sjpnx%20scinx%20a%20adsk%20alu%20arba%20atahq.pk%20coms%20palm%20rwc%20vrcc.ob%20dis%20ila%20novl%20utmd%20rprx%20nrom.ob%20obehx%20obhgx%20obfox%20sctgx
In the copied file, it now shows this:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s=RIMM%20DRR%20NDN%20GMCR%20DF%20V%20ACN%20MOS%20SHLD%20BUCY%20NTGR%20CPRT%20EEM%20DIA%20CME%20mkl%20t%20spy%20goog%20yhoo%20uis%20fnm%20ge%20ko%20MCD%20eln%20emc%20bvf%20abt%20wpi%20agn%20frx%20sfd%20amd%20cnp%20d%20ed%20eix%20celg%20qcom%20nt%20peg%20ppl%20bby%20flex%20cof%20asyt%20proxq.pk%20nok%20fe%20sns%20ibm%20spg%20wlp%20bfly%20brka%20brkb%20zmh%20cmi%20kg%20vrx%20amt%20twx%20ctxs%20sgp%20dox%20cmvt.pk%20elx%20xel%20aapl%20amzn%20jpm%20bsx%20mdt%20duk%20se%20csco%20jnpr%20dell%20ebay%20lly%20hpq%20hurc%20intc%20inin%20lvlt%20mck%20msft%20onb%20orcl%20scln%20smtk%20wmt%20tgt%20brwix%20obehx%20qqqq%20ssdsx%20csvfx%20scdgx%20ktcsx%20t%20obhex%20slafx%20sjpnx%20scinx%20a%20adsk%20alu%20arba%20atahq.pk%20coms%20palm%20rwcþØ9—=t‡†|¤wžÌèûÛÌo¯€[Ú
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Anyone have any ideas on what is causing the corruption and how to prevent it?
BTW, if I re-copy/paste the corrupted section from the source file, it appears correct...for awhile...and, then, later, I'll notice that it has become "corrupted" again. I have *not* compared various corrupted sections
to see if the corruption texts are identical each time.
Michael

Thanks for the reply, Melon.
I disabled the only 2 Add-ins that were present - [COM Add-Ins > Sharing Add-in for Microsoft Lync 2010] and [Actions > Instant Messaging Contcts (English)].
This did not fix the issue. After they were disabled (and they currently still are), I copied back un-corrupted text from my good source file and the text at the end of the document has become corrupted again. Except for the ][Languages] section,
which is much further up in the document, the corruption seems to be consistenly near the end of the document.
I tried to highlight some of the corrupted text and change font, as suggested, and the text just becomes corrupted text in the new font. :-)
I notice that, if I start selecting text (starting from a paragraph mark above the corrupted text - I always keep hidden formatting symbols turned on), as I "arrow down", the "selection" includes lines in blocks lower down -- that is, the corrupted text is
repeated down the page.
Since this may not make sense, I'd be glad to upload samples of the good, original, source text and the corrupted "versiion" of it.
I still need to test the file on one of my computers at home.
Thanks.
Michael

Files become corrupt

Windows 7 64-bit
8GB Ram
Indesign CS5.5 with all updates
FIles:
small 20,000 word book (1 single document) with no pictures, from a Word file
500 page book (1 single document), with 20 small jpgs (about 2MB total), text generated from scans/OCR, inserted as unformatted text
various copies, new/moved, new/IDML, etc. generated as tests
Problems
Several (all?) files created since 05/05 (the initial manifestation occurred almost instantly) have become corrupted. It either shows up immediately or takes around 6-8 hours
Things generally done with a mouse (click and drag to make a text box, resize a text box, copy or move text, placing the cursor to edit) become sluggish (reszing a text box could take 5 seconds to 17 minutes), jerky or sticky (click and drag a handle, release it, the frame edge might move (if and when it does) 0.125" or 6"
clicking and dragging text sometimes moves the wrong text or releases it in the wrong place
New text boxes have multiple columns although the columns setting is 1
Doing some things (e.g. click on export) cause InDesign to freeze
Failed solutions
The suddenness of the problem made me think it could be a virus--tested the Word file (noted above) and my system: found no malware of any sort
Changed the mouse: touchpad, Wacom Intuos, Logitech trackball (the Wacom tablet works 100% perfectly in Photoshop 32bit, but work only like a mouse in Photoshop 64bit--32/64 bit; drivers are current)
any attempt to go into InDesign security (as directed by a technician) fail: no permissions (my account has full administrate rights; a new admin account has full administrative rights) so whatever we could have done there, cannot be done
Exported the file as an InDesign Markup IDML, opened in InDesign
Moved content of file to new file
Creating a new file by moving or opening IDML, may not work at all, or will appear to work but the corruption re-occurs in 1-8 hours
uninstalled and re-installed InDesign
I uploaded a file to technical support. They promised to call back three different time. They did not. When I have called, they say, "24-48 hours they will call back."
Thank you for any help you can give.

OK, so, I finally got a chance to read this through this thread. Can you post a link to one of the problem documents, or email one to me?
(Sorry, I had thought you had done so earlier, but I realized I just misinterpretted something you said).
Another thing to try, of course, is testing against CS6 (8.0.0.370). CS6 does fix a number of bugs and it's where engineers do development, so it's most likely to get easily fixed in CS6 before CS5.5, and there's a not-insignificant chance that CS6 fixes your problem already.
I think your best bet at this point is to try to isolate the problem and determine what about your documents causes this problem. While getting a new version of InDesign out that fixes your problem is not going to happen quickly (if at all), figuring out how to avoid the problem certainly is doable. After all thousands of people use ID every day and don't see this.
The best start is to get a minimal document that exhibits the problems (as few pages as possible). Once there, exporting it to IDML and opening the IDML in ID to confirm the corruption survives the IDML. If that's the case, then you can unzip the IDML and inspect it (it is human-readable XML) and try to determine what is unique/special about your document.
This might be a long odyssey. Of course, my experience is that putting in the effort is more likely to get you results than letting Adobe Support do it for you, but you might have a different scenario.
I don't want to make excuses for them, but I suspect what's going on is that the support people you are talking to are waiting for the higher-level support people, or even for Engineering, and they don't have good control over the timliness of those other people. But that's not an excuse for giving you callback estimates that are not met -- Adobe seems to have a serious problem with this and I would not give them a free pass for it. It seems to happen all too often.
If you totally get stuck you could try asking for the Noida Duty Manager and see what that gets you (Noida, UP, India is the location of Adobe's support center).
But realistically, I'm not sure that is going to make engineering work any faster. Maybe it'll just make them give you more realistic estimates for calls-back...

I have a windows pc. How can I download purchased items which have become corrupted on my PC. I can't use iCloud

I have a windows pc. How can I download purchased items which have become corrupted on my PC. I can't use iCloud without an Apple device. I have gone into purchased but next to each title it merely says 'downloaded'. I need to download them again. It will cost a fortune to re-purchase the corrupted music!

I tried that but it just shows 'downloaded'. There is no little cloud next to that wording. On an Itunes help page it shows a 'library icon' once you have logged in but that does not appear on my version of ITunes which is 11.1. I have lost so many peices of music! Is this some ploy by Apple to get you to buy them all over again?? Thanks for you response, if you can think of anything else I would be most grateful

Printer drivers constantly becoming corrupt

We have a large mixture of HP and Ricoh printers in our environment. They are all linked through a Server 2007 Enterprise edition print server. For the HP printers, some of them do use the specific print driver and other use a universal print driver, also a mix between PCL 5 and 6. Most of the problems are occurring on Windows 7 (we don't have many windows XP and they use a different print server)and we are just starting to see some of these problems on Windows 8 (just starting to deploy). Here are the problems we are having:
1. Randomly the HP printer will stop working. Everything appears to be correct on the server and the PC and it works fine from another PC, but it doesn't appear to be communicating to the printer at all. You click Print in any application and it never actually does anything. If you just delete and re-add the printer you get problem #2. To actually fix it, you have to remove the printer, go into Print Management and delete all HP drivers (on one of the Windows 8 device just removing the one associated with the printer didn't work but removing them all fixed the issue) and telling it to redownload the print driver from the server.
2. The HP printer will randomly or on first install start printing "strange characters" and will keep printing until the job is canceled. Again we found that removing the printer and completely removing the drivers from Print Management and reinstalling the print will fix this.
These keep reoccurring with the same users and occationally new ones and we are starting to get bombarded with calls on our helpdesk. Let me know if there is something I can check to try to prevent these drivers from becoming corrupt on the PCs.
Thank you!

Hello everyone.
I understand you having software conflicts on multiple computers. So I can assist you, I need to find out what printer you have. Please click on this website to find out this information: Model Number. (Only the printers that are experiencing issues please)
On each of the computers; do they all have different connections or the same connection? Please verify if it's wireless, USB or Ethernet connection?
Once I know the connection I can further assist you on your "unable to communicate with your printer" issue.
I have a HP document that will help you resolve your issue on Continuous Pages of Strange or Garbled Characters.
Look forward to hear from you.
I worked on behalf of HP.

Video app becomes corrupted after streaming iTunes purchases

I wasn't sure what to use for a title here, but chose this because it captures much of what I am seeing.
Hardware:
3rd gen iPad, 32GB, iOS 7.0.4
What I am doing:
I purchase TV shows and movies from the iTunes store, but as we watch them while on the home Wifi network, there is no need to download the content to a device before viewing. Once a TV show or movie is purchased, it can be viewed in the Videos app as streaming content, much the same way that it does on Apple TV (which doesn't permanently store anything).
Key observation: I usually make these purchases through the Videos app itself, rather than going explicitly to the iTunes Store app. I am not sure this makes a difference, but it may.
What happens:
It all works well for several weeks or months. Then 3 bad things happen:
1) During this time I observe that the available space on the iPad steadily decreases (viewed through Settings -> General -> Usage). It starts with a value of approximately 12GB free space, and then declines, despite the fact that I am not storing any media files locally. After approximately 2 months, I now have 5GB free, and cannot account for the "missing" 7GB, not even close.
While it is to be expected that any streaming device must temporarily store content, that content is usually cleared after viewing or after some predetermined time interval, etc. I do not expect this content to simply accumulate endlessly.
2) Eventually, videos will fail to work properly. I will attempt to watch a purchased item, and it will run painfully slow, and may be missing audio. I check Usage, and my free space continues to decline. Subsequent attempts to view TV show and movies are now unreliable.
Big clue: shows that do not work properly cannot be deleted or downloaded locally.
3) The entire iPad becomes notably slower and less responsive running all of my usual apps (Pages, Numbers, Facebook, etc.)
What I tried that was illuminating:
I noted that under Settings -> General -> Usage, it shows the Video app as containing "No data". So, I tried downloading a different purchased video in order to guarantee that there is some data. While this video plays within the Video app, I observe that Usage still shows the Video app as having "No data", which is verifiably untrue.
Conclusion: the database used by the Videos app is failing to purge old streamed content, becoming corrupted, and now failing to report data storage to iOS.
What works:
Sadly, the only cure for this problem is a complete erase/restore of the iPad from iCloud backup. When I do this, all of my "missing" storage returns, and videos work normally. The iPad performance returns to its usual snappy self. But the cycle repeats, and I must eventually go through the 3+ hour restore process again.
This solution is 100% consistent with a corrupt database, and hence I suspect that the Video app is the culprit, consuming space until other systems are affected.
Has anyone else seen this?

I'm experiencing this exact issue on two devices:
iPhone 4S 32GB
iPad Air 64 GB
Both while running iOS 7.03 and 7.04 (recently updated both devices to 7.04 hoping it would help. It didn't)
My iPhone had become nearly unusable until I found your post. It had apparently accumulated >12 GB of "temporary streamed content", as after I did a backup/wipe/restore, I had recovered to around 12 GB free space.
It's unfortunate that the fix requires a complete reset/restore cycle, as it's very time-consuming, but thanks for providing that fix! It saved my iPhone 4S. Now I can comfortable wait until the 6 comes out to get a new iPhone.
Really, though, this seems like a critical bug for iOS devices. I'll certainly not stream any iTunes content until/unless this is fixed. I found that if I turn off "Show all Videos" in the Video App settings, it doesn't show the iTunes cloud content for streaming from within the App. This forces me into iTunes to do a full download if I want to watch something. Kind of a pain, but it beats a device that's maxed out on storage and basically bricked.

Quicktime file becomes corrupted only after transfer from a camera

I have encountered an unusual Quicktime-related problem with a customer that I cannot solve. This has been tested on two different cameras (a Kodak Zi6 and a Casio EX-Z80) to verify it is not camera related. The customer has also tested it on his desktop and laptop computers to verify it occurs on both. It must be confined to some specific piece of software he installs, because I've never run into this problem elsewhere. His two computers both run Vista.
1. He shoots video.
2. Opens Quicktime.
3. Plays the video (AVI or MOV... doesn't matter) while the video RESIDES on his camera. It plays fine.
4. Has tried taking the SD card out of the camera, putting it into his laptop, then playing the video while it resides on the card. It plays fine.
5. BUT... the moment he transfers the video file to his desktop and plays it in Quicktime, it becomes corrupted. It does play, but the image develops all kinds of blockyness and distorted colors. It becomes useless.
Any clues as to which software program he is installing that makes this problem occur? I have hundreds of other customers who use these same cameras and have no similar problem.
Thanks.
Richard

The video file is able to be transfered to the hard drive of the computer and it does play with QT, but with blockyness and distorted colors, correct? That would suggest to me video card and\or driver. The reason being if the file was not supported by QT or WMP it would not even play. QT would produce error 2048 and WMP would inform it could not handle the file. But...
I would go to the Window menu of QT player and click on Show Movie Inspector to get some info on the video file.
salaminizer, makes a good point on the possibilty of NTFS\FAT32 file systems. Right clicking on My Computer>Manage>Disk Management will show info of HD's on the computer. Some bought computers will have a back-up Partition that uses Fat32. Which the video might be being saved to.
I'm thinking video card and drivers, but on two separate computers? So find out the video codecs. It's tough unless you have the same camera or what software came with it? Let me know how you make out.

After Effects jumps some frames when i use "time reversal layer"

hi!
i'm editing a stop-motion video. i have a big problem that with AEcs5 i never had.
when i use "time reversal layer" with some image sequence layer (but also with a .mov with alpha) AE become crazy:
sometimes he erase (or jump) some frames, sometimes he put frames from other image sequence that i didn' put in the timeline!!
if u see the image there is nothing here, and appears an image that i didn't put there!!
can you help me please?
thanks!

Hi Rick, super thanks,
but i checked and all my comp are 24fps.
for your suggestion of use the time remap to invert one sequence, many thanks, i'll try!
i use the time reverse, because is good with stop motion when i whant to play with go>back>go>back
i show u the problem:
the column have to go up and down:
but when i render the video there are some frames that jump:

Why does Essbase become corrupted?

I see alot of advice on how to restore Essbase but very little information on why a database would become corrupted in the first place.
I have a database in 9.3.1 and I have a calc script that is run every evening that clears and copies data in the database. On Saturday night while this calc was running, the database suddenly became corrupted and would no longer start until a restored copy was put in place. This was the error:
A read from file [e:\Hyperion\AnalyticServices\APP\APPLICATION\DATABASE\ess00001.ind], with handle [5] from offset [21921792] for [8192] bytes, failed with error [0] and O/S return code [38] after [0] bytes.
Unable to Read Information From [5]
Essbase Internal Logic Error [7333]
The calc hasn't changed in a few months and the outline had not changed as well.
I would like to avoid having to do restores and would really appreciate any insight into why the database would be corrupted so I can try to avoid any future issues.

I've had databases go corrupt when:
1) Some other process tries to, or succeeds in gabbing rwrite access to files Essbase is trying to write to (think disk backup software).
2) The Essbase service is stopped while retrieves or calcs (and I suppose loads as well although I've never observed that) are occurring.
3) Weirdo hardware issues -- I've had RAID arrays die on me (and others) because of faulty hardware but this was a once in a career event.
4) Essbase/the OS runs out of disk space.
That's pretty much it for modern versions of Essbase. Older versions would go corrupt if you looked sideways at them but you're on 9.3.1, so that should not be an issue.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Non-iTunes downloaded songs are becoming corrupted, starting with album art

I have Windows Vista, and I just got a new refurbished iPod touch 64gb 5th gen.
For some reason, songs that I have downloaded (not from iTunes) are becoming corrupted?? some are even old songs I have downloaded months ago but most of this seems to be with songs stuff I haven downloaded recently. This literally just happened yesterday. The album art is showing up on iTunes as half downloaded or with a broken, glitchy bar after I sync to my iPod. Then, most of those songs are corrupted, making those skipping noises in the song. What is even stranger is that most of these messed up songs are ONLY messed up on iTunes, on my iPod they're fine, but then some of them get corrupted on both. I use a "Passport" EXTERNAL hard drive, could there be a problem with that?? Everything I have downloaded is saved to that external hard drive and like I said, even some of the old songs I downloaded months, even years ago are having the album art problem and some of them the sound quality corruption.
I tried restarting and re downloading iTunes hitting the "repair" option, but I think this may be the external hard drives problem?
Does anyone know what I should do? Am I asking this question in the correct place?
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I can't seem to get album art to download into some of my songs. I compare my song information with the information that's in the iTunes music store & it matches word for word but it won't download the art. I can understand if iTunes didn't have the album but they do & the art wont download at all. I click "get album art" so many times & nothing shows up.

Why do certain web pages become corrupted even after I re-install Firefox even when I don't save my bookmarks?

Why do certain web pages become corrupted even after I re-install Firefox even when I don't save my bookmarks?

cor-el,
Yes, I will....the next time it happens. In the past it has happened to AOL a number of times (which is usually my home page), as well as some Yuku message boards I visit...The History Channel A&E, Spike TV, all at various times.
Unfortunately, this morning when it happened to one of the Yuku message board, I went directly to the tool bar, cleared my cache and cookies, without capturing a screenshot. Now , everything I've bookmarked is working properly but I will tell you it's a problem that I only experience on Firefox and not any other browsers, even when I've imported bookmarks from Firefox. It's been a fairly consistent problem for the past 6 months or so where I manually uninstalled, reinstalled Firefox (my preferred browser) and again, manually started bookmarking my sites all over again. It seems that when it happens most of the icons, graphics and photographs are missing, leaving me with only disorganized text.
The next time that it occurs, I will take a screen shot and forward it to you.
Thanks for you interest and help.

When Password Protected - The File Becomes Corrupted and I Can Not Open It

I have password protected two files now in Excel 2007. After opening and then saving a few times, the file becomes corrupted and I cannot open. The following error message appears "Excel cannot open the file"XXXX.xlsx" because
the file format or file extenson is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file.
The files that I created contains sensitive information and I really need to get to them.l

You can try to open these files with 'Open and Repair' .
1.Start Excel.
2.click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Open.
3.In the Open dialog box, click to select the file that you want to open.
4.Click the down arrow on the Open button, and then click Open and Repair.
Also this issue could be caused by malware on the affected machine
Please see:http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2013/09/07/quot-cannot-open-the-file-because-the-file-format-or-extension-is-invalid-quot-opening-office-files.aspx
Some one works out this issue with remove the xlsx entention,give it a try.
1. rename the file and remove the .xlsx or .xls extention etc e.g. if my file is called test.xlsx I remove the '.xlsx' - you will get a warning message saying this could make the document unstable - accept it
2. the document icon should now have turned white (the document won't look like an excel document anymore)
3. open a blank excel document by hitting start -> all programs -> Microsoft office -> excel (this may be different if your not on windows 7)
4. in your blank excel document hit file -> open
5. navigate to the document you renamed above and select it, now click open

Illustrator files with Charts in them become corrupt

I keep running into an issue where I create a file in Illustrator (some of them are detailed infographics), and if they contain a chart, such as a bar or pie chart, they become corrupt and Illustrator gives me an error "Can't open the illustration. The illustration contains an illegal or misplaced operator."
Then it opens the file, but much of it (anything below the chart) is missing. I've been able to restore *some* of my work by exporting a PDF version of the file to an EPS, but I lose a lot of my formatting. This is extremely frustrating, as I am losing hours of work each time it happens. I spoke with a customer service agent about the issue months ago, and even sent her a corrupt file, but never heard anything back.

The last time I made one of these infographics that ended up being corrupt, I saved as both an .ai and .eps. Both ended up being corrupt when I re-opened them. The best fix I've been able to find is to turn all charts into regular graphics by ungrouping them, and saving that. But it's not a great fix since sometimes, I need to go in and adjust the data later on, which you can't do if it's ungrouped.
I work from my hard drive, not a server
I use a legal version of helvetica
No plugins
I (luckily) do usually create PDFs but if there was a corrupt graphic in them, they won't open in Illustrator. I have to open in Adobe and export as an .eps, and when I open that, the text is often outlined or each line of text is a separate object.
When you say "link to another illustrator file," do you mean using the Place command? This might be possible but as you said, not very practical since with an infographic, I'll want to have multiple charts and will need to edit and adjust them on the fly, not open a different file each time then go back and forth to see if it looks right.
I don't have CS6
Basically I am really hoping Adobe comes up with a fix for this bug. I've been creating charts for a long time, but have never had this issue where the file becomes corrupt until now. And when you pay monthly for upgraded software, you expect better, not worse, performance :-/

Project Files constantly becoming Corrupt - CS6

Hi,
I need all the help I can get. Ever since I've started editing on Premiere Pro CS6 (switch from FCP7) I've constantly run into the same problem. For every single project I have worked on, at least twice the project file will spontaneously become corrupt. There are no warning signs, it just happens at random when I open the project. I end up opening one of the auot saves but will usually lose time, and I should not have to rely on these backups as an everyday thing.
I've tried everything I can think of, I've gone so far as to load new harddrives in to my system. I've done fresh install of my OS (10.8.2) and fresh installs of the Creative Cloud. We use CS 5.5 at work with no problems and I've used PPro on and off since the very first Creative Suite and have never encountered an error such as this.
I've had absolutely no problems with After Effects, Photoshop, or Illustartor. Only PremierePro
Thanks.
Here are my hardware specs:
MacbookPro (10.8.2)
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
GeForce 320M 256MB
6GB RAM
120GB SSD (Holds only OS & Software)
720GB HDD (scratch disk)
Codecs: both H.264 and ProRes at 1080/24p

The fix Adobe gave me was as follows (these are for a Mac but I'm sure archeticure would be similar on a PC)
Go > Go to Folder > ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe
Now you will see a collective of folders for whichever adobe suite you have. Go to Premiere Pro and the next folder you should have should be labeled "6.0" change that to "60_old" or some random different label. Try opening up your original project (not the recovery proj) and see if that helps.

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